Important trade-offs of risks versus benefits of surgery need to be discussed with older adults, in particular nonagenarians who are candidates for surgery.

Data that examine specific outcomes of surgical interventions in this age group are sparse. We aimed to evaluate the clinical presentation and postoperative outcomes of nonagenarians undergoing surgery.

A retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients 90 years of age and older who underwent surgery between 2014 and 2018 in general surgical ward of a large-volume academic center.

Subgroups were designed according to type of surgery (elective versus emergency surgery) and diagnosis (oncology versus non-oncology).

Preoperative assessments included Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Norton Scale, Morse Scale, Katz, and Lawton-Brody indices.

Baha Siam MD , Lisa Cooper MD , Ran Orgad MD , Olga Esepkina MD , Hanoch Kashtan MD 

Surgery
Volume 171, Issue 5, May 2022, Pages 1365-1372
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2021.09.030

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